Information and Documentation
Pertaining to Foolscap

Documents, white papers, essays, and trivia related to the Foolscap science fiction conference.

Currently Relevant

Our Mission Statement.

My white paper on Horizontal Programming. A work in progress.

A guide to our current method for picking Guests of Honor.

A posting by Alex Thorne with some good ideas about Hospitality.

Useful Info From The Past

My Let's Do Lunch essay from F1 about nanoprogramming, now called Round Tables.

My personal take on Being a Chair of a convention.

A reconstruction of the program grid from Foolscap II (2000).

A reconstruction of the program grid from Foolscap III (2001).

A reconstruction of the program grid from Foolscap V (2003).

The Pocket Program for Foolscap 11 (2009).

Obsolete

Our original discussion on which weekend to hold the convention on.

An essay on Programming from Foolscap I. Shows some of the early development of the ideas now expressed in the Horizontal Programming document.

Fun Stuff

How we got our name.

Entries concerning Foolscap I from the late Anita Rowland's blog, "Anita's Book of Days". There are also entries for F2 and F3.